Put the pieces together
- Marionette helps reach four permanent cards; Scavenger can then recover the permanent that best repairs your hand.
- Recovering or crafting away cards can turn off Akawalli’s bonuses immediately. Recount before combat.
BG
Fungal Festering
Black–Green (BG)Fill your graveyard with permanent cards and trade efficiently until descend turns medium creatures into large threats.
Mode
How it wins
Fill your graveyard with permanent cards and trade efficiently until descend turns medium creatures into large threats.
- Early
- Develop mana and an early creature or answer.
- Middle
- Marionette helps reach four permanent cards; Scavenger can then recover the permanent that best repairs your hand.
- Finish
- Fill your graveyard with permanent cards and trade efficiently until descend turns medium creatures into large threats.
What it needs
Commit when useful cards in both colors keep arriving and the support for this plan is present.
Four checks while you draft
- 1A playable curve
Can this deck affect the board before its payoff arrives?
Keep early creatures and interaction while assembling the specific support below.
- 2Support the plan
Do I have enough cards that make this interaction happen?
Marionette helps reach four permanent cards; Scavenger can then recover the permanent that best repairs your hand.
- 3Answers and a finish
Can I break a board stall without drawing one particular rare?
Fill your graveyard with permanent cards and trade efficiently until descend turns medium creatures into large threats.
Choose the missing job before another reward that needs it.
What to take next
You have the payoff but too few ways to activate it.
Look for Coati Scavenger.
Marionette helps reach four permanent cards; Scavenger can then recover the permanent that best repairs your hand.
Your synergy is already working but you keep falling behind.
Take an early play or answer before another expensive reward.
Recovering or crafting away cards can turn off Akawalli’s bonuses immediately. Recount before combat.
The support is missing
Favor castable creatures and interaction if narrow support does not arrive.
Signals to watch
- Repeated access to Deathcap Marionette, Mineshaft Spider, Coati Scavenger is better evidence than one gold card.
Repeated useful cards are clues, not proof that the colors are open.
Don’t
Check the support
Recovering or crafting away cards can turn off Akawalli’s bonuses immediately. Recount before combat.
Best commons & uncommons
Deep-Cavern Bat62.6% GIH · 6,432 instances
Chupacabra Echo60.2% GIH · 6,612 instances
Defossilize59.5% GIH · 5,727 instances
Thrashing Brontodon58.7% GIH · 4,869 instances
Pathfinding Axejaw58.5% GIH · 11,102 instances
Bitter Triumph58.5% GIH · 5,342 instances17Lands ↗ · Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023 · at least 100 card-in-hand instances in this pair’s no-splash decks. Choose the job your deck needs first.
Bombs in these colors
Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal 3BBAttack to force discards while lifelink stabilizes a race. Its return as a tapped land makes ordinary destruction less final; double black still needs a real mana base.
Sentinel of the Nameless City 2GAn efficient vigilant creature that repeatedly makes Maps. Choose when to turn those artifacts into exploration and when to keep them for other rewards.
Huatli, Poet of Unity 2GFinds a land early and can become a Dinosaur-producing Saga later. The transformation needs red or white mana as well as the initial green.17Lands Premier Draft ↗ · Nov 9–Dec 25, 2023 · 100-instance minimum
Cards for this pair
By jobA card can fill more than one job.
Deathcap MarionetteTrades with larger creatures and can mill permanent cards for descend before combat.
Mineshaft SpiderBlocks flyers while milling cards for descend and recursion.
Coati ScavengerAt descend four, recovers a permanent card. Its return trigger can shrink the graveyard below four afterward.
Deep Goblin SkulltakerBuild-arounds
GoldUncommons and rares in both colors
All 181 castable cards →Including hybrid and colorless cards
Worked turns
1 examplesExamples apply the printed rules; judge the board, costs and timing.
Adapt the plan to your format
| One-pick | Sealed |
|---|---|
| Three Draft Boosters per player; one card per pick. Premier statistics are recorded Arena games, not a prediction for your table. | Start from the cards you opened. Favor a complete curve, interaction and castable threats over forcing the draft theme. |
Rules for every deck →What every two-color deck needs before the plan: early plays, answers, a curve and mana · BuildLearn deck building →
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